Good morning. This is Yukihiro Shima at Oubaitori.com. How are you today? Bloom your own way, at your very best. This morning’s ten thousand Daimoku — chanted through, in the very best spirit.
Today, may I start with a story about my phone. I use an iPhone 12, which I bought on a 36-month plan because I wanted one so much. The world has moved on to the iPhone 17 by now. Last night, in the middle of the night, I updated that iPhone 12 to version 26.6.
An older device is not a lesser device
This iPhone 12 was the phone I longed for. I still remember the day I brought it home. I use it every day to upload to YouTube. I have never once felt it was hard to use, or slow.
Newer models surely carry advances I don’t understand. But with the one I have, the work of each day gets done. What matters is not the tool. It is how the tool is used.
When I made room, it came back to life
There is one thing I did recently. The storage was full — videos, photos, everything. I moved them to my PC. And when I opened the phone again, the screen breathed. The iPhone 12 came back to life, quick and light.
Without room, the update could not have happened. Because I made room, the next version could come in. This, I think, is exactly how a human being works.
After 26.6 comes 27 — my human revolution, yours
I wondered — why 26.6? So I looked it up. The answer came back: “In preparation for 27.” What we have now is preparation for what is coming. When I read that, a thought quietly rose in me: this 27 — perhaps it is my human revolution. And yours.
Years may pass, and still we can update. There is nothing that says we cannot. All the more, if we are given health and length of days. I stretch morning and night, and my range of motion has grown, and muscle has begun to return. Body and mind — there is still room to renew.
How do we update ourselves? Body and mind are not two. When Daimoku is at the root, each small thing of the day becomes preparation for the next version.
What would you like to make room for today?
Without room, the next version cannot come in. Inside your heart, what have you begun to sense as “perhaps no longer needed”? An old feeling. An old attachment. An old excuse. Move one of them, quietly, the way you would move a file to another drive. Just one.
The room you make is the room something new can enter. And for that, today too — Morning Daimoku. Let’s Daimoku. Thank you for today.
🙏 From Yukihiro Shima — Oubaitori.com
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